Heart Watch Exercise Question

[JackieInCo]

I have noticed that in the heart watch app when I go outdoors to walk, I am lucky if the app even shows a minute where my walk counted towards burning fat.

When I use the indoor walk workout app and walk in my house for 30 minutes at a time, nearly all that 30 minutes shows as fat burned yet I am walking at a slower pace because I am in my house and walking around furniture and back and forth the entire time.

How is it possible that this is true indoors instead of outdoors. Indoors it shows I am walking a 27 minute mile and outdoors, just over 16 minutes.

 

[Julien]

I all likelihood the Outdoor is correct and the Indoor is wrong. Indoor is designed more for walking on treadmill. If you are meandering around the house all of the 'extra' arm movement would be wrongly interpreted as (more intense) straight line walking.

Also what do you meany by "...shows as fat burned...."? You have Exercise minutes and in the Workout app you can show Duration, Current & Average Pace, HR, Distance, Active & Total Calories burned.

 

[JackieInCo]

Also what do you meany by "...shows as fat burned...."? You have Exercise minutes and in the Workout app you can show Duration, Current & Average Pace, HR, Distance, Active & Total Calories burned.

In the Heart Watch app, it breaks down workouts as shown in the screen cap here.

 

[Newtons Apple]

Your walks need to be more vigorous unless you have health problems that prevent. You need to get your heart rate up above what you are doing now. Start increasing your speed slowly and and then increase duration.

 

[JackieInCo]

Your walks need to be more vigorous unless you have health problems that prevent. You need to get your heart rate up above what you are doing now. Start increasing your speed slowly and and then increase duration.

I'm aware of that which is why I usually walk outside where I can get in 16 minute miles. At home, I can't do that because of the confined space. It snowed on Sunday and as you are aware, a huge amount of people don't shovel their walks after a snowstorm making it dangerous to walk outside for a few days.

 

[Newtons Apple]

How about exercise like squats, climbing stairs, pushups, anything that will increase the HR.

 

[JackieInCo]

How about exercise like squats, climbing stairs, pushups, anything that will increase the HR.

Honestly, I never thought about doing anything other then walking since I've always enjoyed doing that.

I had to look up what a squat is and I think it's something I can do daily now. Tried doing stairs this week also. I can walk up and down my staircase about 10 times before I get winded.

 

[Newtons Apple]

Honestly, I never thought about doing anything other then walking since I've always enjoyed doing that.

I had to look up what a squat is and I think it's something I can do daily now. Tried doing stairs this week also. I can walk up and down my staircase about 10 times before I get winded.

Getting winded, to a point, is what you are looking for. Keeping your HR elevated for a while will develop a stronger heart. Do be careful on the stairs as their is always a fall danger. Maybe develop a walking path through your house with a trip up and down the stairs included in each.

 

[JackieInCo]

Getting winded, to a point, is what you are looking for. Keeping your HR elevated for a while will develop a stronger heart. Do be careful on the stairs as their is always a fall danger. Maybe develop a walking path through your house with a trip up and down the stairs included in each.

Thanks for the suggestions and not making me look dumb. I've gone through my entire life with never really working out because I was never overweight and I could always eat what I wanted. Walking 4-5 miles every day these past two months has really improved my energy levels and help me keep doing daily tasks for longer periods of time. I'm definitely going to start doing the stairs more and squats and maybe some other things too.

 

[newellj]

I wouldn't feel dumb! Whatever the algorithms are underneath these apps, they're not perfect. I am very fit, with a resting heart rate in the mid-40s. I work out strenuously for 2.5 hours/day and walk quickly for another 2 hours/day. My average heart rate on the elliptical over the last few days was only 125bpm for 90 minutes. The apps don't think I work very hard. They're just calibrated differently. My suggestion would be to let the apps be a guide, not a god. The data is objective, but the interpretation is somewhat subjective.

 

[Newtons Apple]

Thanks for the suggestions and not making me look dumb. I've gone through my entire life with never really working out because I was never overweight and I could always eat what I wanted. Walking 4-5 miles every day these past two months has really improved my energy levels and help me keep doing daily tasks for longer periods of time. I'm definitely going to start doing the stairs more and squats and maybe some other things too.

If you are walking 4-5 miles you are doing great! Winter will not last forever and in the mean time you have found some new things to do. Not sure about how long it took you to walk the 4-5 miles but if you could match that time inside, you will stay feeling good!

Have a great week!

 

[newellj]

Not to mention that there's no O2 in a lot of places in Colorado. - says he who is literally at sea level.

 

[kohlson]

Not registering outdoor walking as exercise time is not uncommon on the apple watch. I've certainly had my issues with it. If you're using the exercise app, take a look at the recorded workout, then the heart rate graph. From time to time mine shows jumps in the heart rate, higher and lower. There's no good reason for these (total elevation on this morning's 2.8 mile walk was 13 feet; residential neighborhoods so no stoplights), so my current theory is a disconnect between the heart rate monitor and my skin. This seems to happen much more often when I'm not wearing gloves - that is, my hands are in my pocket and not swinging along.
As suggested above, I use the watch as something to prod me.